On 12-13 / 3/2021, at Flamingo Dai Lai, the General Directorate of Vocational Education and Training (DVET) cooperated with the German International Cooperation Organization (GIZ) to hold the Conference "Capacity building for managers of DVET”. This is the first time the Conference has been held with the participation of senior officials, including all leaders of the DVET, Leaders of functional Departments, Units of DVET and officials in the leadership planning category at Department level under the DVET; members of working groups on development of projects and strategies for the year 2021, together with 50 principals of colleges across the country attended through the online form.

 Opening speech of Dr. Truong Anh Dung, Director General of DVET at Conference

2021 is a special important year as it is the first year of implementing the Resolution of the XIII National Congress of the Party, the first year of implementation of the 5-year socio-economic development plan 2021. -2025 and the 10-year socio-economic development strategy for 2021-2030. Facing with the increasing demands on human resources directly for production, business and service activities of the labor market, in the context of the strong development of digital economy and digital society, under the impact of the industrial revolution 4.0, the new generation of trade agreements, the Covid-19 epidemic and the trend of human mobility in the international labor market, it requires a flexible VET system with a view to developing VET in the period 2021-2030 in the direction of open, diversified, flexible, modern, quality, efficient, accessible and fair system, with many training modes and levels to meet the learning needs and lifelong career skills upgrade of workers to meet the requirements of the working position; VET reform; associate VET with employment and the labor market; step by step bring VET to regional and international quality standards. Facing the renewal requirement of VET, successfully implementing the above targets, it is necessary to focus on improving the capacity of the management staffs, but first of all, the management staffs of DVET and Leaders of high-quality schools are planned as a breakthrough solution to innovate and improve the quality of VET   in the period 2021-2030.

 Dr. Juergen Hartwig – TVET reform Program, GIZ at the Conference

Addressing the direction and opening of the conference, Dr. Truong Anh Dung, Director General of DVET, affirmed that the goal of the conference is to improve the capacity of the management team, helping management staffs to grasp trends in VET in the world and orientations of Vietnam. Thereby grasping opportunities, challenges and development trends of VET to renew thinking, seize opportunities to anticipate the development trend to innovate and improve the quality of Vietnamese VET in an open and flexible direction and integration. The Director General emphasized that the current trends, the position and role of vocational skill, VET, skilled human resources play an important role in promoting GDP growth, enhancing national competitiveness. The economy will be more efficient, thereby promoting investment efficiency. In fact, the most prosperous countries are countries with high skilled labor force. Therefore, all countries tend to shift, pay attention to VET, re-establish the VET system to train human resources with high skills to serve the development.

Group photo of all participants at the conference

      It is forecasted that with the development of science and technology, the problem of labor skills needs to be improved, with about 10-30% of jobs changing, up to 40% of the workforce will not meet the needs when work changes. Automation, in parallel with the COVID epidemic will speed up the application of technology to production activities, so it is forecasted that 85 million jobs will change due to the reassignment of jobs between people and machines, 97 million of new jobs will appear and therefore up to 40% of workers need retraining, employees needing training and adding new skills.  

Online participation from VET institutions at the conference

   Director General Truong Anh Dung affirmed that, over the past 20 years, Vietnam's VET has seen many changes, many new regulations have been built and issued, creating a solid legal foundation to contribute to the development of VET, contribute to the general socio-economic development of the country. With the orientation of VET development in the coming time, the Party's documents have clearly pointed out the direction to develop an open and flexible system, develop high-quality vocational training institutions, innovate training methods, modernize the system. facilities. With the current development trend, VET needs to meet the requirements of human resources for the economy, new training and up skilling are necessary to improve knowledge and skills for employees, to respond to the change of work. Faced with that requirement, the VET system needs to be reformed, setting a specific goal for itself to build a development strategy in the new situation, in which the innovation must be done synchronously from the policies, management works into implementation at institutions. In order to perform that task, first of all, the DVET has determined that the human factor is significant, so training classes and conference programs to improve the capacity of managers are an urgent requirement.

Conference’s overview

During 2 days, March 12 and 13, 2021 lecturers who are experts from GIZ, Australian Embassy, ​​Unesco, ILO ... and experts from some relevant agencies and organizations will make presentations and discuss about the contents, models, trends of VET in the world and in the country on practical issues, and requirements of VET in the coming time. These are: Australian Government Management and Recommendations for Vietnam presented by Ms. Jen Bahen, research and education counselor at the Australian Embassy; The UNESCO Vocational Training Strategy was led by Mr. Michael Croft - Chief Representative of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Vietnam and Mr. Toshiyuki Matsumoto, Head of Education Department, UNESCO Office in Vietnam; Competency framework of managers on VET and recommendations for Vietnam presented online from Turin, Italy by Mr. Stefano Merante - Expert of ILO International Training Center (ITC) in Turin, Italy ; Enhancing the digital and transformational skills of the DVET management team led by Mr. Paul Comyn- Senior Skills and Employment Specialist, Employment Policy Division, ILO Headquarters in Geneva Presentations online from Geneva, Switzerland; State management model and the role of the economy in the vocational education system presented by Mr. Jurgen Hartwig - Director of Vietnam TVET reform Program; Developing the VET system in the direction of open, diversified and flexible direction, led by PhD. Phan Chinh Thuc - Former Director of DVET; The demand for human resources through vocational education training to 2025 and orientation to 2030 meets the requirements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Dr. Dao Quang Vinh - Former Director, Institute of Labor Science and Social Affairs presented; Digital transformation in the state management of vocational education by TS. Nguyen Nhat Quang - Director, Vinasa Institute of Science and Technology.

Through each presentation, delegates attending the conference discussed in-depth issues related to Vietnamese VET with the VET systems from other countries, finding out suitable contents to apply in Vietnamese VET. In fact, Vietnam VET has gradually integrated and caught up with the development trend of the developed countries, many models have been successfully applied such as dual training, training transfer according to programs  Australian standards, model 9 + ...

It is hoped that through the conference, it will help the management staffs of the DVET and leaders of VET institutions have more general knowledge, thereby arousing the spirit of innovation and creativity in performing work of leaders, officials of DVET; promoting experience in the management, administration and implementation of tasks to contribute to the successful implementation of the goals of VET in the 2021-2030 period.

   DVET’s Office